After missing a year due to injury, Chadick signed with an EBL team for the 1950–51 season before later returning to local ranks, where he concluded his career as a C. Y. O.

Regarded as one of the greatest basketball players to come from Wilmington, he was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in 1984.

The next year the club was moved to Elm and Jackson Streets, which was only about a block from my home, and I started to sneak around there again and play some basketball.

"[4] In 1935–36, he was a member of the Boy's Club Reapers team which won the junior and senior division championships in the Delaware State Tournament.

[4] Chadick attended Wilmington High School and was unanimously voted basketball team captain in January 1936.

[5][6] The Morning News reported in February 1936 that "Two Eagle-eyed performers, Captain Paul Chadick and Danny DiPace, have featured the [Wilmington HS] Red Devils' attack.

[11] Chadick started his professional basketball career with Amsterdam in the New York State League (NYSL),[12] appearing in nine games and scoring 87 total points in the 1939–40 season.

[1] He also was a player-coach that season for the General Chemical team of the Industrial Basketball League (IBL), leading them to a 5–0 start.

[13] The General Chemical team eventually made the league championship, where Chadick's "sensational long-range firing of field goals" helped them win the final game 42–39 against DuPont.

"[14] The Journal-Every Evening reported that "all of his action arches were from a distance with no less than half of them coming from the dead center of the court.

From January to February 1942, Chadick played for the Milford Cardinals in the Eastern Shore Basketball League (ESBL).

[23] Pusey & Jones eventually won the league championship in March, 57–37 against DuPont with Chadick scoring 12 points in the game.

Paul Chadick is too good for the Delri League and is the main reason why Sun Ship has made shambles of competition by winning 23 of 24 games in two years of play.

It is possible that Sun Ship could win the league without Paul, but the Robertshaw machine is a double-barrelled cinch with Chadick in harness.

The Shippers have a clever assortment of court talent but the Wilmington whirlwind is like Joe DiMaggio with the Yankees—he is the extra punch that wins titles.

Possibly the second half struggle might result in a wide open scrap involving several teams, and this would be a tonic for the fans and the competitors.

[28] Sun Ship eventually won the league championship game 44–40 against Ford Local, with two field goals made in the final minute by Chadick.

[31] In November, Journal-Every Evening journalist Dick Rinard wrote that "Paul Chadick has proven to any skeptics who may have doubted his big league caliber that he can go in any competition.

"[33] Chadick helped the team make the league championship round, where they went 4–3 against the Philadelphia Sphas to capture the ABL title.

[35] In October 1945, he wrote a letter to the Blue Bombers manager stating he was in Japan but hoped to return to Wilmington "before too much snow falls.

[44] He finished the season with 35 games played, 166 field goals and 71 free throws made for a total of 403 points.

Trailing 65–77 in the fourth period against the Philadelphia Sphas, Chadick scored four field goals and sparked a rally that won the game for Trenton 87–84.

"[4] In the games he did play in that season, Chadick recorded 42 field goals and 31 free throws for a total of 115 points.

[1] An October 1949 article in the Journal-Every Evening stated that "some basketball observers" rated Chadick as "the best player ever developed in Wilmington.

[56] At the beginning of the 1950–51 season, Chadick received permission from doctors to play and signed with the Lancaster Rockets of the EBL.

[61] Chadick scored 18 points for the All-Stars (leading the team) in an exhibition against St. Mary's, helping them win 58–50 in a game that benefited the Delaware Day School for Handicapped Children transportation fund.

[64] St. John's was entered after the CYO season to the Delaware senior basketball tournament, where they advanced through the quarter-finals before being eliminated by Kappa Alpha.

[67] In 1974, Chadick moved from Wilmington to Seminole, Florida, where he served 18 years as manager of a liquor store and operated a sporting goods shop.